The candidate of the main opposition coalition of Venezuela to the presidential elections of 2024, Maria Corina Machadothis Monday asked citizens to create their own campaign commands for these elections and put “their capabilities and resources at the service” of the “liberation and transformation” of the country, which will be achieved, as he said, through elections “ free and clean.”
“I ask you to set up your own campaign command with Venezuela, in every house, in every workshop, in every school, in every church, in every warehouse, in every company, (…) in every space where you and your people is organized. “We are going to have thousands and thousands of campaign commands with Venezuela throughout the country and also abroad,” he said in his New Year’s message.
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In the opinion of the former deputy, the “liberation” of the country “will fundamentally depend” on the organization, and the holding of “free elections” is “the responsibility of all Venezuelans,” as well as “the democrats of the world, who understand the enormous implications” for the “region and for the West of achieving a peaceful and orderly transition” in the oil nation.
He announced, in a video he published on social networks, that the creation of the “most formidable structure for the defense of the vote” is already underway, the “600k Network”, an “immense legion” of “600,000 citizens trained and coordinated as “It has never been done before on this continent.”
““2024 will be a year of intense work, each of us assuming our task,” stated the opposition leader, who is disqualified from holding elected public office.
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Machado, who assures that she has never been notified of any disqualification, asked the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) in December to review her case, using the mechanism agreed between the Government and the opposition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) within the framework of the political negotiations that both sides maintain, facing the presidential elections.